ماترا

माऽा mātrā, s.f. Measure; quantity; a minute portion, particle, atom, a little, trifle; an element; an ingredient; an instant; a dose (of medicine);—a prosodial instant, the unit (in metre), the length of time required to pronounce a short syllable;—materials, property, goods, possessions, wealth, substance, means of subsistence;—a vowel-symbol; the upper or horizontal limb of the Nāgarīcharacters:—mātrālagānā(-meṅ), To put in the vowelmarks.